A co-op apartment at Executive Towers on the Grand Concourse has shattered a record on…
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It’s that time of the year again when farmers’ markets open up across our…
According to the Furman Center, almost 1.7 million New Yorkers were living below the poverty…
Sorry Brooklyn, but according to AOL’s Lifestyle section, The Bronx’s New York Botanical Garden is…
Soundview―The Bronx is Filming. Two years after announcing their expansion to The Bronx, York Studios…
A new study released yesterday by the Association of Housing and Development (ANHD) documented the…
- Rare, truly affordable apartments, as low as $454 a month, now available in The Bronx
- Housing lottery thinks $4,376 for a two-bedroom in Fordham in The Bronx is “affordable”
- Once one of the country’s ‘bluest’ counties, The Bronx takes a dramatic shift to the right
- Popular German discount supermarket Lidl to open its first Bronx store next week!
- A new area code may be coming to NYC in 2026
Bally’s gambling complex proposal at the former Trump Links in Throggs Neck relies on getting state approval to alienate parkland, but lacks local leaders’ support as the legislative session winds down. By…
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Citibike is Coming to The Bronx—Finally
Ever since the popular Citi Bike bike sharing program launched in NYC back in 2013, Welcome2TheBronx has been highly critical of initially avoiding low income and communities of color. But for months we’ve known that Citi Bike has been in talks with Bronx organizations to finally bring the service to our borough and we’re finally glad…
40 Years After Shutting Its Doors, The Old Bronx Borough Courthouse Gets New Lease On Life
For the past 15 years Henry Weinstein, the owner of the landmark Beaux-Arts Old Bronx Borough Courthouse in Melrose, has been searching for the right tenant. Deals have come and gone but none stuck but after 2 years of negotiations, he told Welcome2TheBronx, the building is set to re-open in late Summer 2018 as a…
NYC Taking Away Parkland in The Bronx Will Allow It To Happen Across the Five Boroughs
Make no mistake: New York City’s attempt to take away land dedicated and mapped as parkland in The Bronx that was slated for Mill Pond Park expansion on Pier 5 will set a precedent that will make it only easier for NYC and New York City Economic Development Corporation to take away parkland anywhere in…
Real Estate Bubble Brewing in The Bronx?
Between 2010 and 2016, the feeding frenzy by developers and investors of Bronx apartment buildings totaled a record $9.6 billion in transactions with many properties sold at speculative prices as all eyes turned on the borough as the last frontier. Now, The Real Deal reports “In over half of apartment building transactions between 2009 and…
Another Co-Working Space Arrives in The Bronx
MELROSE―The Bronx is getting another co-working space as Bronx FlexSpace gets ready to open their doors officially next week. Like Bronx Coworks, which opened up last month, Bronx FlexSpace, which is located at 452 E 149th Street between Brook and Bergen Avenues just doors down from The Opera House Hotel, will offer various levels of…
Watch: 92 Year Old Bronx Man Dancing Salsa
Yesterday during an excursion to Westchester, I ended up at Empire Casino in Yonkers (Don’t judge me) and my father introduced me to a 92 year old Bronx man who was born in Puerto Rico and came over on a ship in 1942. But what caught my attention was that this man DANCES salsa for…
- Rare, truly affordable apartments, as low as $454 a month, now available in The Bronx
- Housing lottery thinks $4,376 for a two-bedroom in Fordham in The Bronx is “affordable”
- Once one of the country’s ‘bluest’ counties, The Bronx takes a dramatic shift to the right
- Popular German discount supermarket Lidl to open its first Bronx store next week!
- A new area code may be coming to NYC in 2026
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